ML19309C622
| ML19309C622 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 12/14/1979 |
| From: | Seyfrit K NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Robert Beaton GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. |
| Shared Package | |
| ML19309C615 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99900403 NUDOCS 8004090078 | |
| Download: ML19309C622 (3) | |
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1 i [.i; Ul's Docket No. 99900403/79-03 General Electric Company Nuclear Energy Business Group Attn:
Dr. R. H. Beaton Vice President and General Manager 175 Curtner Avenue San Jose, California 95125 Centlemen:
This refers to the QA Program inspection conducted by Mr. J. R. Costello of this office on October 1-5, 1979, of your facility at San Jose, California, and to the discussions of our findings with Mr. J. Barnard and members of your staff at the conclusion of the inspection.
This inspection was continued during a meeting with GE representatives in the NRC Region IV offices on October 30, 1979.
Areas examined during the QA program inspection and our findings are discussed in the enclosed report. Within these areas, the inspection consisted of an examination of procedures and representative records, interviews with personnel, and observations by the inspector.
During this inspection it was found that the implementation of your QA program failed to meet certain commitments in your Topical Report No. NEDO-11209-04A.
The specific findings and references to the pertinent requirements are identified in the enclosures to this letter.
Please provide us within thirty (30) days a written statement containing, (1) a description of steps that have been or will be taken to correct these items, (2) a description of steps that have been or will be taken to prevent recurrence, and (3) the dates your corrective actions and preventive measures were or will be completed.
It appears f rom the results of this inspection and our inspection of one of your suppliers that serious deficiencies exist in the implementation of your QA program relative to Criterion VII of Appendix B to 10 CFR Part 50.
Your inspections of this supplier have identified deficiencies in the imple-mentation of your supplier's QA Program.
Our inspection of the same supplier has identified these same deficiencies, but many others were identified which your program did not detect.
Our concern is that you continue to use this supplier in the absence of any corrective actions being taken regarding those deficiencies known to you from your inspections.
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4 General Elcetric Company While this supplier is providing only a small number of safety related components, what concerns us most is the potential for this same lack of control of purchased material, components, and services existing at other suppliers that are being monitored by this same segment of your QA program.
In addition to your response to the Notice of Deviation enclosure, item B, please provide the following information:
(1) Your actions to assure that the required quality is achieved for those purchase orders presently active with the supplier in question.
(2) Your assessment and conclusions concerning the scope and assigned respon-sibilities of CE inspection personnel associated with this supplier.
(3) How you will be able to attest with confidence that these same conditions do not exist with other GE suppliers.
It is appropriate that we point out to you the fifth paragraph of our March 30, 1979, letter concerning acceptable implementation of your QA p rogram. If our future inspections substantiate our concerns regarding Criterion VII and you have not taken effective corrective and preventive actions, it may be necessary for us to initiate actions to withdraw our March 30, 1979 letter.
In accordance with Section 2.790 of the Commission's " Rules of Practice,"
Part 2, Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, a copy of this letter with enclosure and your reply together with the enclosed inspection report will be placed in the Commission's Public Document Room.
If this report contains any information that you believe to be proprietary, it is necessary that you make a written application within thirty (30) days to this office to withhold such information from public disclosure.
Any such application must include a full statement of the reasons on the basis of which it is claimed that the information is proprietary and should be prepared so that proprietary infor-mation identified in the application is contained in a separate part of the period, the report will be placed in the Public Document Room.
Cencral Electric Company Should you have eny questions concerning this inspection, we will be pleased to discuss them with you.
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Enclosures:
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Notice of Deviation 2.
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